Thursday is my dog Blue’s birthday. He’s five and he’s a great dog, so I urge you to raise a bone or a biscuit in his honor. Woof! Then focus on Punxsutawney Phil’s time to shine and a reminder that Groundhog Day is more than an entertaining movie. It’s a reminder of Einstein’s definition of… [read more]
The Best We Can Do
Monterey Park, CA After hearing an interview with Brandon Tsay, the man who disarmed the Monterrey Park shooter, Shannon Watts, Founder of Moms Demand Action, said, “We are asking everyday civilians to stand up to gunmen because our lawmakers are too cowardly to stand up to gun makers.” * You know in your bones that… [read more]
The Through-Line
Last Sunday’s post dealt with the goal of extremist Republicans: destruction. They want to destroy democracy and replace it with autocracy – fascism. They want to destroy the Constitution and replace it with some tool of absolute power only for themselves. They want to destroy facts and truth and replace them with propaganda and self-serving… [read more]
Destruction
It’s painfully obvious that the primary purpose of the debt ceiling is to provide a leverage point for Republican wackos to use to pretend to be deeply concerned about government spending. They know they’re unable to club government to death like a baby seal or put it in the dryer and shrink it like a… [read more]
Brutality
Reading time: 91 seconds I’m thinking about the honoring of Dr. Martin Luther King, jr. earlier this week and doing something of an inventory. For example, it’s striking – stunning even – to hear Dr. King’s hopes, indictments, demands and predictions in his I Have A Dream speech, as delivered on the steps of the… [read more]
Full Transcript – First Press Conference
Outside the Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives . Jones: Mr. Speaker, Cynthia Jones here – Laughing Stock News. We cover the Congress. You know about the blistering list of lies George Santos told in order to get elected in New York’s 3rd congressional district. You’ve been asked about that repeatedly and… [read more]
Cluelessness
Struggling to Understand New York Times Senior Opinion Staff Editor Alexandra Sifferlin wrote a piece on Monday triggered by the Covid-19 death of sports journalist Grant Wahl while covering the World Cup in Qatar. Her story was not about his death. It was about the “anti-vaxxers [who] were quick to blame his death on the… [read more]
The Mouse in the House*
As I watched the spectacle in the Republican-controlled House of self-inflicted embarrassment, it became clear that we’re pretty much a country of Never Kevins. Kevin McCarthy has no principles other than a mania to become Speaker of the House. He has given away anything and everything to get that title, even as doing so leaves… [read more]
Raison d’Être
An essay in The Washington Post arrived last Wednesday shortly after my post about Biden’s accomplishments was posted. The WaPo piece is penned by Marc Thiessen and bears the not-so-enlightened title The 10 Worst Things Joe Biden Did in 2022. To be fair, Thiessen also offered a day earlier what he calls The 10 Best… [read more]
For The Hand Wringers
Note: No post on Sunday. We’ll reconnect in a week. We have hand wringers on the right . . . . . . complaining that all Democrats are socialists, that Biden is a useless wimp, that a Congress controlled by Democrats hasn’t and can’t accomplish anything for real Americans and that Biden is a pitiful… [read more]
